Top AI Experts Warn That Artificial Intelligence Poses Extinction Risk
Hundreds of leading AI experts and industry executives sign a statement warning that AI poses an extinction risk on par with pandemics and nuclear war. The signatories call for global action to mitigate this societal-scale threat.
Hundreds of artificial intelligence experts and notable public figures sign a statement warning that AI poses a severe extinction risk. The one-sentence declaration states that mitigating this risk should be a global priority alongside other massive societal threats like pandemics and nuclear war.
The signatories include over 100 AI professors, highlighting the significant academic consensus behind this warning. Notable supporters feature highly influential computer scientists and Turing Award winners Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, who lend substantial credibility to the alert.
Leadership from major AI companies also backs this unprecedented warning, with executives and scientists from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic adding their names. The broad coalition further includes experts from diverse fields such as pandemic preparedness, climate change, nuclear disarmament, philosophy, and the social sciences.